Campus & Community

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Q. What does a “tobacco-less” culture mean?A. Penn hopes to shift the way that faculty, staff, and students on campus think about tobacco use. A tobacco-less environment is one that encourages tobacco cessation and provides people with the necessary tools to eliminate tobacco from their lives.

A new white paper just released by the Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) finds that university-based research and development (R&D) affects the spatial development of universities, as well as their surrounding urban areas.

Two thousand of the world’s top young coders will descend on the Wells Fargo Center from Friday, September 4 to Sunday September 6, battling for over $30,000 in prizes at the world’s largest collegiate hackathon: PennApps.

The day’s heat felt sweltering, but it didn’t stop the gardening crew—or G-Squad—from getting weeds picked, plants watered, and “good food bags” packed for their West Philadelphia neighborhood customers.

Around the globe, lightning flashes 44 times a second. Contrast that with meteorite impacts, which occur just five to 10 times per year.

This spring, PennDesign and PennPraxis, the nonprofit outreach, practice, and professional arm of the school, offered grants for the inaugural Social Impact Projects.

“Courtly Treasures: The Collection of Thomas W.

When fall semester commences later this month, returning students and new arrivals will see a revamped, restored, and revitalized campus.

There is a theory that RNA, instead of DNA, is the original building block of all life. Yet many RNA molecules remain mysterious, their true nature and function little understood.